With all of the bad news that they are getting hit with right now (Bush's approval numbers, Iraq, Rovegate, etc.)- the Right Wingers need to get something out in the MSM that will deflect heat back on to our side. It appears that they are going to use the
Loan Scandal that involves Air America Radio.
According to the NY Sun -
The top executive at a Bronx youth organization said yesterday that the former director of Air America Radio received more than $800,000 in loans for himself and the radio network from the nonprofit organization while serving as its development director.
It goes on to state -
Some of the transfers, according to the president of the Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club organization's executive committee, Jeannette Graves, occurred when the development director, Evan Montvel Cohen, who for a time served simultaneously as the liberal radio network's director, appealed to the organization for two loans worth $35,000. Another member of the executive committee said Mr. Cohen told the executive director of the organization that he needed the money to pay for chemotherapy for himself and other medical expenses for his ill father.
Now this story has been relegated to the right wing blogs, newspapers, and FOX News. However, as we all know, as they yell more and more, they story will eventually get legs.
It is time for our side of the blogsphere to show our strength again and flood Air America with the cash to repay these "loans" back to the Boys and Girls Club. Even though, Air America is not legally responsible for the debts, because of its new ownership group. It would show our commitment to Air America, and shut the right wingers up.
We have the heat on them now, don't let them slip out of it with a "distraction".